Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early on. and while still sober, she can richly crunch even Coward's soggier lines, tangle with an all-too-cultured maid, or just move or stand still with feral ladylikeness. But not till a few corks have popped does she attain full stature. She is never so grand as when lurching, nor so gymnastic as when trapped in telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose...
...film is most successful when transforms Homeric epithet into moving picture. The frontal assault on Troy is a grand sight- yet not so grand that the spectator wonders if he has not arrived for the Dardanelles campaign 3,000 years late. The chariot chases are breakneck things. Best of all, though, is the passage in which the colossal horse comes gliding into Troy on a churning revel, like the thought of death on the full flood of life...
...Brooklyn grand jury suggested one possible solution to "the vexing problem of delinquency in our youth." It asked New York City police to issue identity cards to all boys and girls of 18 or over. Purpose of the cards: to certify that their bearers are old enough to buy and drink liquor. "Guzzle Tags," the Daily News called them...
Leningrad cheered Porgy and Bess (TIME, Jan. 9), but nobody could predict how Moscow, with its love of grand opera in the grand manner, would take to the jazzy American folk opera about crapshooters along Catfish Row. By opening night last week, it was plain that Muscovites were at least curious to see the first U.S. theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Tens of thousands had applied for seats. Immense crowds swarmed around the Stanislavsky Theater hoping to get a spare ticket. A lucky 1,500 Soviet bigwigs, foreign diplomats and Russian first-nighters crammed into the theater...
...Mack Sennett's Small Town Idol. The only entertaining thing about this relic is the realization that great-grandmother once laughed at it. More to modern taste are the two Mr. Magoo cartoons. Good old Magoo staggers through a skiing trip and the sale of his furniture in grand style. He is even better than Groucho Marx, which is quite a feat...